Senior Financial Analyst - Manufacturing Operations

Job Summary

The Senior Financial Analyst – Manufacturing Operations plays a critical role in achieving Trystar's objectives by blending cost accounting expertise with forward-looking financial analysis. This role provides financial insights, performance analytics, forecasting support, and strategic recommendations to support profitability, efficiency, and growth.

About the Role

This position serves as a key business partner to operations, engineering, and supply chain leadership, focusing on cost accounting and financial analysis to drive operational efficiency and business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a financial business partner to manufacturing and operations leadership, providing insights that support profitability, efficiency, and growth.
• Develop, analyze, and explain manufacturing cost trends, margin performance, productivity metrics, and key operational KPIs.
• Provide actionable analysis to support pricing, make/buy decisions, capital investments, and operational trade-offs.
• Prepare and present financial results, variance explanations, and recommendations to finance and operations leadership.
• Support manufacturing accounting activities, ensuring accurate costs, inventory valuation, internal controls, and financial integrity.
• Analyze material, labor, and overhead variances, identify root causes, and partner with operations to drive corrective actions.
• Establish, maintain, and analyze labor and overhead rates aligned with budgets, standard costs, and production assumptions.
• Review job costing activity daily to ensure accuracy, completeness, and timely transaction processing.
• Partner with Inventory Control to support inventory analysis, reporting, cycle counts, and adjustments, ensuring strong inventory accuracy.
• Perform monthly inventory reconciliations and support inventory reserve analysis.
• Assist with annual physical inventory observations across the enterprise.
• Provide insight into working capital drivers, including inventory turns and excess/obsolete inventory exposure.
• Partner with Engineering to validate and improve Bills of Materials and Bills of Operations, ensuring ERP accuracy and financial reliability.
• Prepare and maintain standard adjusting journal entries related to manufacturing and inventory close processes.
• Support ERP implementation and optimization efforts (Epicor), with a focus on reporting, costing accuracy, and data integrity.
• Identify and lead process improvement and analytics initiatives that enhance financial visibility and operational performance.

Requirements

• Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field
• Minimum of 7 years of progressive experience within accounting/finance with experience in manufacturing environment
• Strong understanding of manufacturing cost accounting, standard costing, and inventory accounting
• Proficient use of financial systems and Microsoft Office tools, including proficiency in Excel
• Excellent communication skills, with a bias towards collaboration and teamwork
• Advanced analytical skills with the ability to translate data into meaningful financial insights
• High attention to detail with the ability to see the “big picture”
• Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with ERP systems, Epicor experience, a plus
• Positive attitude, adept at problem solving
• Willingness and ability to travel 15%
• Demonstrated success influencing cross-functional stakeholders through financial insight
• Continuous improvement mindset with strong problem-solving skills